Super Bowl

You could tell their hearts were in it. Three Super Bowl champion quarterbacks, long retired from the NFL, showed they still had game Sunday morning in a charity flag football game to raise money for heart health awareness at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis. Joe Theismann, Doug Williams and Mark Rypien, who led the Washington Redskins to their three Super Bowl titles, were joined by Baltimore Raven nose tackle Brandon Williams and a couple of dozen others who paid $500 for the privilege of playing in the seven-on-seven game. The cause for the "Huddle Up for Healthy Hearts" event: The Heart Health Foundation and Dare to C.A.R.E. to encourage people to get heart...

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